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Poster:	Lee Marvin the Martian	Date:	September 07, 2009 10:45:39pm
Forum:	oldtimeradio	Subject:	ok, otr fans...

Does anyone have suggestions on quality reading material on OTR? I'd love to find a book or two about my favorite medium; figured this was a good place to ask. Thanks.

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Poster:	Lum Edwards	Date:	September 09, 2009 04:05:13pm
Forum:	oldtimeradio	Subject:	Re: ok, otr fans...

http://bearmanormedia.bizland.com/

My Favorite Bookstore of all time. Radio, Tv, Old Movies and Stars.

Mike D

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Poster:	davidinberkeley	Date:	September 22, 2009 03:04:09pm
Forum:	oldtimeradio	Subject:	Re: ok, otr fans...

I read my way through On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio by John Dunning, and learned a lot.

Then I found the bibliography in the back, which lists all of his sources. That gave me a ton of more books I decided to read.

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Poster:	PH1941	Date:	December 08, 2009 08:27:13am
Forum:	oldtimeradio	Subject:	Re: ok, otr fans...

Fred Allen has several books "Treadmill to Oblivion" and "Much Ado about Me"...name of the third escapes me just now...very interesting. There is a Jack Benny auto biography co-written by his daughter Joan after his death. George Burns has several books. Bob Hope has one or two amusing ones that are radio relevant. There is also a good Benny Biography written by Milt Freeburg or Friedman (I think...I'm at work and working from memory...) back in the late 70s or so. Many of these books are out of print, but, generally avaialbe.

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Poster:	cid92	Date:	January 24, 2010 09:23:52pm
Forum:	oldtimeradio	Subject:	Re: ok, otr fans...

Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman was a decent read.